Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-18
Los ANGELES.
A Contemptuous City--Pro-
gress aud Prospects.
THE CLIMATE AND CROPS.
The Land Room--Ostrich Farsi
ing--A Vineyard Terfor-Tho
Native Wines-Quail Hunting.
Los ANGELES, Cal, October

<<~D ~~~~ b1ShDS Oesh1 S~esyt(oh -
1t Is amusing to notice the vat oon-
tempt with which the so 600 inhsbf-
tants Of the city of Los Angeles look
down ON the $50 600 benighted denlr
GEMS of certain northern vilIAso
known as San Francisco, and on oti,er
places that have the effrontery to grow
rapidly and to claim special advaa-
tages of climate, situation and COM
merce. The Los Angeles HERALD In
forms it's admiring readers that
Pasadena and Las Angeles will b. one
city In brief p.riOd, and EIrm c,,ntinuoo0
municipality from the Sierra Madfo &, d
s..a.-an extent Of thirty miles In length 81
contaf ed therein. and will b.. the cnpSol
%, tho richest State in the Union T6Q
claim Of New York a. the Umpire stats .
already IN dispute, but the disputu will esDoo
fOrnia."
1t must be admitted that much has
happened In recent years to justify
this Los Angelic grandiloqnence.
Fifteen years ago the City Of Angels
had only 10, 900 inhabitants, no street,
cara, and one Railway. To-day It has
ut least $4,000 inhabitants, electric
street-cays. and more than half-ar
dezen railways, with about seventy
five daily trains. Orange treee have
increased in the county from 25:010 =
20 900; grapevines from 1000 no t.
20 ,000, 900; and other agricultural
products in proportion. Its very diD-
advantages have proved advantages 70
Los Angeles. For instance, tue fnct
that coal, like wood, is expensivo
made the city the first ia the ctMlntry
tn adopt 9 general system Of e3ecCric
street lighting. Il has eev6nt6en
'nasts $50 feet high, f.Mrteen maafa %
fset high, and hundreds Of privxte
lights. The electric rxi1hdnd
il also being rapidly extendsd.
The cars run Ut tho ran Il
ten or twelve miles an hour, which
can he increased to twenty outside the
city limits. The roads capacity Il
said to be four times that Of h3rsa
road, and its cost only one-hslf. white
there is no,torturing OF poor horses IN
the hot MONDAY sun. A ride or :
walk along the streets Of Los Angrieo
conveys the impression that thu city
is quite aslarge and Is 'metrosplitAnh
as it claims to he; the natufxlsbuatlo
and activity being increased by the
winter visitors from the : asst, who, IL
is asserted. are now coming in vt the
rate of q thousand day, to BE- scat
tered q lev days later among the vxx-
10 Is resorts near the coast and along
t 10 foothills, where an extraordinary
number Ut new hotels are now q
course Of construction.
In every country the smaller cities
are apt to take after the metropolis.
Thus, Rouen constantly suggests
Paris, Linz Vienna, the English cities
London, e'c. Similarly. Los Angeles
suggests San Francisco In many de-
tails-the appearances of the stores.
hotels, Chinese shops, and tie gar.
den-, although the gardens have Z
more decided semi-tropical aspect,
and there 10 Q general appearance az
more open-airness, If the word b.
permissible. The city is surrounded
on al sides by hixh mountains, and
buried among groves and gardens.
Orange. lemon, pepper" and fly trees
adorn the gardens everyw hero, eide
by side with many luxuriant shrubs
and flowers, dwarfed apologies for
which are often seen in Eastern gar
den-. In size and color these Califof-
mia flowers are incompatible, but
the same causes which tend to
give ounces, for instance,
less pronounced favor than they have
in the East, appear to impair the
fragrance ri some flowers. This fact
has often been commented en-. hut
believe that too much emphasis has
been placed on it. Repeated expert
ment has convinced me that the YER
bena and heliotrope, and perhaps the
geranium. have a less de icious fra
GRANGE in California than in New
York, at least in October: but the
same is not true of roses, and pinks
and lilies; and I am informed that
the countless varieties of will flowers
that adorn the (now arid) hillsides in
srring have a most intoxic ting fra
GRANGE, wherewith they allure 90
many bees that honey can be sold at
three cents pound. According to Z
writer in the San Francisco Chroniele.
AZ eet peas have no fragrance at all in
California, which seems very odd.
for only a few hundred miles further
north, In Oregon, these flowers have
u most exquisite fragrance, MS IknoW
from personal experience.
| : The present ambit ON of the Lon
Angeles people is to surpass all the
rest If the world in as many things a.
possible. And in one thing certainly
they are unapproachable-in he
number OF zeal estate Offices that dec
crate their town. Neither San Fran
cisco nor any mining town ever had
20 many saloons to the number OF in
habitants ~ Los Angeles has Of these
land Offices; and the various jykes
apropos which have been current Of
late in the Eastern papers hardly ex-
aggerate the real state of affairs. Al
most every land owner, whether he
has sign over his door or not, is
willing to part with some or all of his
property for O considerAtion-not q
-light one, by any means; and the
whole county i. affected with this
epidemic, there being places Of only =
few thousand inhabitants whore cor
ner lots are sold almost at New York
city prices. Une day, driving along
la country road about twenty miles
from Los Angeles, noticed half-a-
lozen well-dressed men resting under
tree. My companion informed mo
hey were doubtless syndicate look
| ing about for place to locate new
town. At Fullerton, few miles from
Anaheim, l saw one Of thee new
towns. 1t consists of the framework
II large hotel and few hundred
wards OF elegant cement side walk, not
in front Of the hotel, but in another
part If the town." Elsewhere towns
get pretty large before any one begins
to think Of . sidewalk, even Of Tho
most primitive kind but the residents
lin Los Angelica county. of course.
would not be satisfied With sidewalk
| In any way inferior to that in front a
Mr. vanderbilt's house On Filth Az